Balsamic Spinach Strawberry Feta Salad with Walnuts

Balsamic Spinach Strawberry Feta Salad with Walnuts is one of our favorite salads at home.

The salad is savory, sweet with the light sour dressing and has both soft and crunchy elements to make you want more instantly with each bite.

This salad was partially inspired by my Arugula Feta Salad.

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• 🍓 Ingredients
• 📜 Variations
• 👁️ More salad ideas
• 📖 Recipe

🍓 Ingredients

I didn't understand for a very long time why spinach would make a great salad ingredient until I came across a spinach salad at a friend's house.

Then I had another epiphany when I saw fellow bloggers adding strawberry to their spinach salad.

It turns out that sweet soft fruity strawberries complement well the earthy flavors of leaf spinach.

Add to this, walnuts, feta cheese and a well seasoned balsamic dressing, and you have a bomb of a salad!

I like to enjoy a glass of homemade strawberry detox water with this Spinach Strawberry Feta Salad.

I feel like I'm doing great with my healthy food intake that way.

Spinach

I tend to use baby spinach salad leaves in this spinach strawberry salad recipe because they are smaller and more delicate.

Baby Spinach is definitely the way to go for a cold salad dish.

Spinach adds an element of earthiness to the salad and is a great source of protein.

Strawberries

A no brainer, strawberries the fresher and better!

I try to use small woodland Strawberries or home grown strawberries whenever possible.

Wild strawberries are more intense and small.

I love them!

They can be easily found growing scattered in nail tree forests.

Feta

Feta Cheese comes in blocks and you can buy regular Feta cow milk cheese and the more intensly flavored "real" goat cheese feta.

I usually go for the cow milk cheese feta but if you like goat milk and cheese, then pick that.

Greek or Bulgarian Feta is preferred for quality reasons.

Besides, I simply cut the feta into cubes but you can crumble in your feta cheese too if you like.

Walnuts

Walnuts add not only a nutty touch to your salad but they also turn your spinach and strawberry salad into a crunchy feast.

I tend to crush them a bit into smaller pieces so that I can pick them up easier with my fork and the other ingredients.

That way you have little pieces of walnuts scattered all over your salad.

Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing

The strawberry spinach salad dressing for the spinach strawberry walnut salad recipe is made of balsamic vinegar, oil, mustard, and simple seasoning.

The mustard helps to emulsify and thicken then strawberry salad dressing.

I like to use classic dijon mustard for that.

I use extra virgin olive oil and imported Italian balsamic vinegar from Modena, which tends to be on the thicker side.

📜 Variations

You can also add the following ingredients to your spinach strawberry balsamic salad to create different spinach salad recipes!

• Avocado
• Bacon
• Boiled Egg
• Pears
• Red Onion
• Candied Walnuts
• Dried Cranberries
• Fresh Blueberries

👁️ More salad ideas

• Aragula Salad with Feta
• Tuna Asparagus Salad with Microgreens
• Bacon Dressing

Dear Reader, how do you like your spinach salad with strawberries and feta? Do you add other ingredients to yours?

📖 Recipe